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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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Fraud email example:
From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:37:39 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend Trust and confidential,Stand as next of kin....
Dear Friend Trust and confidential,
I am Mr.Maclord Ubah I am working as a Branch Manager with the=C2=A0 * UB=
A* UNITED BANK OF AFRICA, Apapa. For your information, there was one Japa=
nese business merchant that based here. His name is Mr. Toshio Kuzito. He=
had a fishery company here. He was banking in my branch and I was direct=
ly in charge of his account because he could not speak English fluently a=
nd requested that he want me as the branch manager to be directly respons=
ible for his account. As the custodian of his account, he entrusted most =
of his banking documents in my care to safe-keep for him in our strong ro=
om.
He lodged the sum of Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dol=
lars in a fixed bonded investment account to run for Ten years from 1996 =
to 2007. Mr. Toshio disappeared without any information for a long time.=C2=
=A0=C2=A0 I thought that he has gone back to his country Japan to be back=
this year when his fixed deposit investment will mature but upon maturit=
y of his fixed Deposit bonded investment nobody saw him, the management a=
t our head office insisted that I must fetch him to claim his invested mo=
ney with the accrued interest. I traced his address as written in his ban=
king documents only to discover that he, his wife and only daughter died =
in the plane crash of 2002. From my search, I discovered that Mr. Kuzito =
was among those that died in a plane crash involving EAS Airline on the 4=
th of May 2002. For your reference on this air accident, please click her=
e.
=C2=A0 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968300.stm=C2=A0=C2=A0
The person now occupying his residence revealed to me also that the gover=
nment sold the house to him and also sold his fishery company and handed =
over the money they realized from the two sales to Japanese Embassy here.=
I have reported to the Management of our bank that Mr. Toshio is dead an=
d the Management of our bank has insisted that I must provide any relativ=
e of Mr. Toshio to claim his money. The Management of our bank said that =
I was the person that introduced Mr. Toshio to our bank and as such that =
I must provide any of his relative to claim his investment. The Managemen=
t of our bank threatened that if I don?t provide any relative of Mr. Tosh=
io in six months, that they will transfer the money of Mr. Toshio to Fede=
ral Government Reserve account for ammunition importation for the militar=
y.
Based on the above information, I have decided to link anybody to stand a=
s Mr. Toshio?s next of kin to claim the money he deposited in our bank as=
Fixed Investment since it is obvious now that nobody knew about it. Do n=
ot worry that you are not Japanese because you can still stand as Mr. Tos=
hio?s next of kin under our banking laws here.
Relative or Next of Kin as our bank interprets represents adopted persons=
, In-laws, friends, business associates and so on so you don?t need to wo=
rry about not having any relationship with Mr. Toshio. I will provide you=
with the investment documents which Mr. Toshio entrusted in my care for =
safe keeping. Since the Management of our bank is not aware that I am in =
possession of Mr. Toshio?s relevant documents, if you present it to them,=
they will have no doubt that you are indeed close to Mr. Toshio.=C2=A0
Note that there is no risk involved in this transaction, as I will give y=
ou all information you may need for the successful execution of this deal=
with me. I contacted you in trust because I don?t have any foreign frien=
d due to the fact that I have not traveled abroad before. This transactio=
n will go through normal banking process. I will direct you on how to app=
ly for the claim of this money to our head office as soon as you indicate=
you interest. I hope to resign from this banking job as soon as we compl=
ete this deal to come over to your country for investment of my share. We=
shall share this money equal between two of us as soon as we complete th=
e deal.
Regards,
Mr.Maclord Ubah
=C2=A0
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